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Asserting that he was proud of his identity “as a Kashmiri and as a Muslim”, Mr. Mattu said the NC was committed to mounting a “strong, unapologetic” fight against “these forces of tyranny, oppression and bigotry”.

The three-member Shunglu committee, formed by the then Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, has pointed out "gross abuse of power" by the Arvind Kejriwal government in its report.

Top EC officials had conveyed its plans to invite politicians and others to try and tamper with the EVMs to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal when he had met them at Nirvachan Sadan last week over the issue of reliability of the machines.

Former Goa Congress MLA Vishwajit Rane would be inducted into the BJP on Thursday, a party leader said on Wednesday.

Opposition Congress, SP and BSP on Wednesday forced a brief adjournment of proceedings in Rajya Sabha over alleged tampering of electronic voting machines (EVM) to favour the ruling BJP.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the UP government's decision to waive off farm loan was a "partial relief" but a step in the "right direction" and asked the Centre to evolve a national response to the widespread distress.

Bhind Collector Ilayaraja T and the superintendent of police Anil Singh Kushwaha were on Sunday shunted out, a week ahead of by-election to Ater Assembly seat in the district.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will hold his first cabinet meeting on April 4 where key issues in the BJP's poll manifesto, especially farm loan waiver, are likely to be taken up.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the country is united against any kind of violence and Muslims have realised that terrorism is an attempt to defame Islam.

Former national president of Samajwadi Party's (SP) legal wing and spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia on Sunday formally joined the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP).

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will visit ‘Kaanha Upvan’, a shelter home for cows and stray animals run by Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son Prateek Yadav and his wife Aparna Yadav.

The appointment of five observers for the April 12 RK Nagar bypoll here is the highest in the country's electoral history.

The senior BJP leader further alleged that the AAP government having "failed" on every front in Delhi, now wants to "confuse" the citizens by raising "irrelevant issues".

Members of the ruling Congress party and opposition AIADMK (Amma) on Thursday hit out at Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi in the Assembly for "disrespecting" the government, MLAs and delaying development works and demanded that the Centre recall her.

"Having shored up the position of Indian government in those areas, I think the PM can travel with confidence to Israel, feeling in many ways that what he is doing is something that speaks for India's independent foreign policy without in anyway compromis...

“The government will further tighten the anti-cow slaughter law and make it more stringent. We will ensure that 'gau mata' is protected zealously. We will clamp down the practice of cows being illegally and clandestinely transported for slaughter," said R...